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less often when disturbed. The females are even more secretive 
than the males and usually prove very hard to find. We have 
never seen this sex take wing." 
Curve-tailed Bush-katydid; Narrow-winged katydid. 
Scudderia curvicauda curvicauda (DeGeer). 
Fig. 50; Plate 14, fig. 6. 
Locusta curvicauda DeGeer, Mem. Hist. Ins., vol. 3, p. 446 (1773). 
Phaneroptera angustijolia Harris, Treatise, 3d ed., p. 161 (1862). 
Phaneroptera curvicauda Smith, Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, p. 145 
(1868) ; Rept. Ct. Bd. Agric. for 1872, p. 357 (1873). 
Scudderia curvicauda Fernald, Orth. N. E., p. 106 (1888). — ^Walden, Bull. 
Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv. Ct., no. 16, p. 127 (1911). 
Measurements. 
Total Body Teg. L. Teg. W. Wgs.>Teg. H. fem. Ant. Pron. Ovip. 
Male... 41-49 21-24 32-36 7.5-8 6 -7 23-27 35-40 5.5-6 
Female. 42^8 23-28 32-36 7.5-8 5.5-6 25-29 35-40 5.5-6 7mm. 
This is probably our commonest large Bush-katydid. The 
female is likely to be confused with that of S. texensis; the male 
may be identified without serious difficulty. This race inhabits 
all of southern New England, at least as far north as middle Ver- 
mont (Brandon), and southwestern Maine (Fryeburg), is found 
throughout New Jersey, and westward to Wisconsin. In the 
latitude of Virginia and Ok- 
lahoma it intergrades with 
and passes, southward, into 
another race, typical only 
in the extreme south (Flor- 
ida to Mississippi). North- Fig. 50.— Curve-tailed Bush-katydid, Scwdffmo 
ward, likewise, it probably curMa curvicauda. End of male abdomen. 
' 7 r- o, side; h, dorsal view. (After Scudder.) 
intergrades with the small 
northern race or subspecies {S. c. borealis) found in the boreal 
districts of Maine, Ontario, and Manitoba. 
Adults of this race appear in New England in the latter half of 
July, are plentiful in August, and probably linger until killed by 
frost. 
Rehn and Hebard record this Bush-katydid as "common and 
widely distributed through the undergrowth of the Pine Barrens 
